Microsoft’s futuristic ‘Project Silica’ stores data on glass plates for 10,000 years (4 minute read)
Microsoft Research's Project Silica is testing the storage of huge amounts of data on glass plates using three-dimensional pixels called voxels. The plates can store data for thousands of years. Each plate can store several terabytes of data. The data inside each plate can't be changed once written. Project Silica is still in its early stages and it will be some time before the technology can be used commercially.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Figure's humanoid is already walking and performing autonomous tasks (20 minute read)
Figure has released video footage of its humanoid robot. The robot was designed with the aim of making it useful as quickly as possible. Figure's team achieved bipedal walking in less than 12 months, a record for a brand-new humanoid initiative. The company aims to show the prototype doing useful work by the end of the year. This article contains photos and a video of the robot as well as an interview with Figure's founder Brett Adcock.
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This startup CEO claims he can completely decarbonize the cement industry (3 minute read)
Brimstone Energy is trying to reduce carbon emissions from the production of cement by using calcium silicate rock, which contains no CO2. It will use a patented technology to remove the calcium from the rock. The company has received certification that its product is essentially the same as Portland cement. Its technology produces cheaper cement than what is currently available. Brimstone hopes that its process will lead to the industry using a fully decarbonized system.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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What's happening in Chrome Extensions? (8 minute read)
This article looks at some of the changes the Chrome extension team has made over the past few months and some of the new features that will come out later this year. Some of the highlights include improved Service Worker stability and the launch of the Runtime and Side Panel APIs. Upcoming changes include the addition of a UserScripts API, a ReadingList API, and an increase in the limit on enabled static rulesets. The Chrome Web Store has been redesigned.
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ExecuTorch (GitHub Repo)
ExecuTorch enables on-device inference on mobile and edge devices including wearables, embedded devices, and microcontrollers. It enables efficient deployment of PyTorch models to edge devices. ExecuTorch is compatible with a wide variety of computing platforms and it can fully utilize hardware capabilities such as CPUs, NPUs, and DSPs. Step-by-step tutorials on how to use ExecuTorch are available.
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FTX execs blew through $8B — testimony reveals how (6 minute read)
FTX executives spent $8 billion worth of customer funds on real estate, venture capital investments, campaign donations, endorsement deals, and a sports stadium. Former senior FTX executive Nishad Singh's testimony provided details about exactly where the money went. Singh says that there was a coding error that prevented the correct accounting of user deposits by around $8 billion.
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Superlinear returns (28 minute read)
The returns for performance in business are superlinear. This is caused by exponential growth and crossing thresholds. Crossing thresholds leads to exponential growth and exponential growth helps cross thresholds. The general rule for finding situations with superlinear returns is to look for work that compounds.
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oterm (GitHub Repo)
oterm is a text-based terminal client for Ollama that supports multiple persistent chat sessions and custom models.
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